How do you know Romans 6 it's not water?
Both the Romans 6 ad the 1 Corinthians 12 passages assert baptism into
Christ.
And Romans is talking about having been baptized
into His death
with Him, and then resurrected in newness of life with Him.
That baptism is this one: Speaking of His coming death, prior to His coming wrath at some point after His resurrection, the Lord noted in Luke 12:
49. I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Note what He underwent as He contemplated that baptism that so had Him "straightened" - Luke 22:
41. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42. Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
43. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
44. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Romans 6 is the Body member's Identification into His baptism unto death; even the death of the Cross, by the Spirit:
Galatians 2:
19. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20. I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
How is he dead to the Law through the Law?
Romans 7:
4. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law
by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
forth fruit unto God.
5. For when we
were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6.
But now we are delivered from the law,
that being dead wherein we were held; that
we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
That is Romans 6:
1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2. God forbid. How shall we, that
are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized
into Jesus Christ were baptized into
his death?
4.
Therefore we are buried
with him by baptism
into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5. For if
we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6. Knowing this, that our old man B crucified
with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7. For he that
is dead
is freed from sin.
8. Now if we be
dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him:
9.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Colossians 2:
12. Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye
are risen
with him through the faith of
the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he
quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
This faith of the operation of God is the Spirit's work - 1 Corinthians 12:
12. For as
the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ.
13. For
by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all
made to drink into one Spirit.
This is a spiritual baptism the eye does not see, nor that the senses perceive. We know it has taken place because the passages inform us it has.
Ephesians 2:
4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5. Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us
together with Christ, [by grace ye are saved;]
6. And hath raised us up together,
and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus:
7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
And guess what?
Ephesians 4:
4. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5. One Lord, one faith,
one baptism,
6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
